Distance units
The Waze client appears to use three types of unit for distance reporting, miles, decimal fractions of miles and feet.
In the UK we generally use two units for road distance, miles and yards. We do not measure road distance in feet, I measure the size of my bedroom in feet but not the length of my road.
Also "point one miles" doesn't mean a lot to me or many other people I'd imagine, not to mention that it is shockingly poor grammar.
Please can we have a UK units option, that supports miles, half a mile and yards. Thank you.
Maniacfox
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Bill Gwilliam
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when distance is set to miles, small distances are reported in feet, yards is more commonly in use ( at least for significant distances of say 1000 feet (300!yards)) in uk
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janis
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Would be great to see km instead of miles for traveling distance in website for europe users.
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David in the UK
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I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion. UK drivers and road signs use miles and yards, NOT miles and feet. It is really confusing when Waze says "in 900 ft..." when we would say "in 300 yd..."! PLEASE add separate distance options for imperial (US) and imperial (UK) (as well as metric, obviously). The TomTom app already has these 3 options and it's time Waze followed suit. Please don't forget us UK users!
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Mick Pattison
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I agree entirely, Feet as a unit of measure is useless after around 20 feet, do away with comments at 1000 feet and just give instructions at say 250 yards , half a mile, and fractions of miles. You shouldn't mix decimals and fractions in the imperial system
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Anonymous
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Your country and USA should do the only right thing and join the metric-system! ;)